If I understand this morning's news properly, we're invading Venezuela because they nationalized some American oil company's assets and gave it to Venezuelan companies. In unrelated news, America has nationalized TikTok and given it to American companies.

https://fortune.com/2025/12/18/venezuela-oil-trump-chevron-seized-assets-blockade/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgexp1q8wn1o.amp

@adamshostack see, data is literally the new oil

@adamshostack isn’t hypocrisy one of the main traits of American culture? One of our founding principles I believe.

@buherator @adamshostack

Toxic, hard to dispose of, people think it's valuable but ultimately it's just pollution?

Yeah, checks out.

@adamshostack At this point I'm not categorically opposed to regime change from China.

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The fact that only one of these resources is seen as a national defense priority is proof that he is too old.

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Venezuela is also about donor maintenance.

Paul Singer, the vulture capitalist of Argentina, won a court case.

As he's the 7th largest GOP donor & his Elliott Management hedge fund is 9th largest donor, Paul Singer feels he's entitled to his very own Vietnam War.

It's the same kind of war the CIA waged in Central America over cheap bananas for the United Fruit Company.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-25/elliott-affiliate-s-bid-to-buy-citgo-approved-by-delaware-judge/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/judge-backs-elliotts-6-billion-bid-for-venezuelas-citgo-64cc8302

https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/us-judge-authorizes-sale-of-venezuelas-citgo-to-vulture-fund-elliott/

https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuela-parallel-lawsuits-controversial-terms-entangle-citgo-sale/

@adamshostack Let's remember, how bribable Trump urged the U.S. oil industry for $1 billion support for his unsolicited 2024 campaign.

Evidently now's the time to pay back the industry's return on investment!

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/09/trump-asks-oil-executives-campaign-finance-00157131

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Ah bananna wars!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Wars

@sgnj151 @Npars01 @adamshostack

Banana Wars sounds like a punchline from an early Woody Allen film. It's not. They were serious and deadly parts of acquiring and keeping a monopoly on a popular staple. See, Butler, Smedley.

They continued at least through the 1950s, thanks to courtiers like John Foster Dulles and his brother.

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What about the corps that buddy putin nationalized?

https://english.nv.ua/business/russia-seizes-u-s-company-assets-50529848.html